13th May 2018: The last time we were leaving Malawi we stopped on our journey on the main road beside the farm. I was meeting Adamson, the leader on the farm. Then suddenly, into the conversation like a bolt of lightening, burst Ruth pleading for a job. She
10th May 2018: This used to be called Mary's office, but next time she may need a new location, as Donna and Florence look quite settled here even two days after we departed. Donna is checking the "mileage" on the vehicle logs before sending me requisitions for
7th May 2018: The farewell party with drinks, buns and clothes from Ireland has become a standard affair in Wells for Zoë. These are the people who run our farm, do the propagation and training of others, in budding, grafting and Climate Smart agriculture. We have a set-up
9th March 2018: It is our intention that ALL our staff learn to type and learn about the basics on Word, Excel and emailing. Here are Prominence and Fatima updating the pump installation database. Regularly when people come looking for jobs we offer them a chance to learn
22nd February 2018: This is Head of the Girl Child project Florence, holding a new net for Volleyball and a ball. Here follows three recent reports from her. The report from Saturday Feb 10, 2018 followed: Today I get this amazing update, showing, how our organisation is run by
17th February 2018: They said it couldn't be done: The experts, that is, told us that apples don't grow in Mzuzu, where our farm is located in Malawi So I went to our long time friends at Irish Seed Savers in Scariff, Co Clare. They gave me
18th January 2018: This is Florence in the office with some uniforms for the girls. The following is a report on some of what she manages: She now has 258 girls to look after and you will agree that she does an amazing job.
2nd January 2018: Back to work after the Christmas break, this is our first Management Meeting. Even though Rose is the mother of all matters, each of our team leaders is in charge or the boss of their own domain. They have a short planning meeting once a
20th December 2017: Today Rose decided that all teams should come together for a little party, so they did. They had a little food and soft drinks and danced a little. The builders and Forestry teams appear to be missing, but maybe they were just too
4th December 2017: Each day now our teams go in different directions, assisting each other to get as much work in as possible. Here in the picture Miriam (Preschools) and Prominence (Forestry) wait to head off on a joint venture with the pump guys delivering cement and
Here we have Chrissie working the chop saw. She's holding the fort for the boys and making sure the show is still on the road. We are on track to having 500 pumps installed by the end of 2017, bringing clean and safe drinking water
Pictured is Chrissie - it's often hard to get her to look at the camera as she always has her head down working on something! She came to us one day looking for work. She didn't just come and ask though, she came with a great